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cr.yp.to: 2024.06.12: Bibliography keys
The bibliography at the end of the paper "New directions in cryptography" has 14 entries, labeled "[1]" through "[14]". The numbers "1" through "14" are examples of bibliography keys. I'll abbreviate "bibliography key" as "bibkey" or just "key".
Jade Rubick - Managing a bottleneck team
Feel like your team is the bottleneck? Learn how to address the challenges of managing a bottleneck team.
You might need a portable monitor
I cover why as a one monitor kind of guy, I found a portable monitor essential - both for streaming and for debugging the home lab.
Patterns of Data Loading – Topics and Broadcast
Efficient WaveRNN: Block Sparsity
WaveRNN inference can be accelerated by using block-sparse weight matrices combined with specialized block-sparse matrix-vector multiplication kernels.
How System Requests Work and How to Add Your Own SysReq
I needed to add a custom System Request (Sys Req or SysRq) to a linux kernel some time ago. While doing so, I dug deep into how it works and I thought I’d make a quick post about it. Here is a good SuperUser answer about what a SysRq is. You may also know abou…
How much have I spent to work from home?
The surprising cost of remote work.
textile-based electrochemical sensors
an exploration on building wearable electrochemical sensors using textile-based materials.
Ripgrep integration
Ripgrep integration, a walkthrough # The two pillars of fzf # The interactive terminal interface and the fuzzy matching algorithm are the two pillars of fzf. However, the usefulness of the latter is rather limited in a non-interactive environment. This is beca…
Artificial Consciousness
"torrent"
Small units of work that work
Creating small git commits is a good development practice. Preferably, with a clear commit message as well. It simplifies code review and can help tell a cle...
W. Jason Gilmore
It's never been easier than ever to buy a SaaS. This is what you should do to ensure you can effectively assume control upon acquisition.
Procrastination Is Destructive
Procrastination is the thief of time. It's the enemy of progress. It's the silent dream killer. You continue to delay things until there is no time left. You...
Joining Clerk as an OSS Fellow to work on Zod 4
I've received Clerk's inaugural OSS Fellowship!
Why Agents Fall Short
Why doesn’t your agent work as well as a SWE-agent, even when you use the same LLM? And why is it not as simple to implement?
Stop thinking and start building
99% of businesses die before even being born. By giving it a real chance you're are already beating the odds.
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, me…
Lock-free reference-counting a TLS slot using atomics, part 1 - The Old New Thing
First, we do it with locks.
The .NET MAUI Extension for Visual Studio Code is now Generally Available - .NET Blog
Start developing .NET MAUI apps with the GA Visual Studio Code extension today!
Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support
Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support
Book Review: Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications - Coding Sonata
This is a thorough review for a book that would be your ultimate resource to explore the world of architecture and Software design in .NET
Flameshot
Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time.
Why curl closes PRs on GitHub
Contributors to the curl project on GitHub tend to notice the above sequence quite quickly: pull requests submitted do not generally appear as “merged” with its accompanying purple blob, instead they are said to be “closed”. This has been happening since 2015 …
Using .NET Aspire eShop application to collect all the telemetry
Integrate OpenTelemetry with .NET Aspire eShop and New Relic to enhance your application's telemetry and gain deep insights into performance and health.
5 Practical Ways to Add Polly to Your C# Application [2024]
How can you make your .NET apps resilient? This article presents five ways to integrate Polly into your app to make it robust and reliable applications.
Sonar Webinar, end to end security of a web application
I did a Webinar on application security with Denis Troller and Sonar. I would like to thank Sonar for this opportunity, I really enjoyed it and found doing this together with you really professiona…
Visual Studio 2022 - 17.10 Performance Enhancements - Visual Studio Blog
Explore the latest Visual Studio 2022 update, version 17.10, featuring significant performance enhancements like faster Windows Forms designer loading, improved Razor colorization, quicker solution loading, and reduced DLL overhead. Discover how these updates …
How To Encrypt ASP.NET Core Route Parameters
Uses ASP.NET Core interfaces to encrypt and decrypt route parameters
The Red Hat cloud native architecture solution patterns
Being a software architect, I'm always looking for good resources that can help me design better solutions. One of these resources I can rec...
Export and Quantize Models like Llama-3-8B-Instruct with Model Builder for ONNX Runtime GenAI
Previously in Phi-3-mini in 30 lines of C# with ONNX Runtime GenAI and Phi-3-vision in 50 lines of C# with ONNX Runtime GenAI I showed how easy it was to run small Phi-3 models locally in just a few lines of C#. In this blog post I show how you can export anot…
Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity
Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG …
.NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack v5.6: NuGet CPM and Nightly Builds Support
Firstly, .NET MAUI 9 Preview 5 has just been released. The changelog can be found here. Notably, a new Blazor Hybrid Web template has been introduced in this version. In short, this new template ab…
Announcing ARC Prize
Announcing ARC Prize - a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress